So we’ve sort of lucked out this month with good friends who keep feeding us well. Last Saturday we spent the day with our Russian friends Dmitri and Lena, who cooked up a storm and showed us a great time. Yesterday Adam and I spent the day at the home of Audrey and Nick, along with our friends Jennifer and Rob. Jennifer, Audrey, and I are friends through my sorority’s alumnae association, and whenever we all get together (with the husbands, without the husbands) we have such a wonderful time. They are two of the easiest ladies I know to just shoot the breeze with.

I hadn’t seen these women in far too long; busy schedules and life just get in the way sometimes. And it was really wonderful to just sit outside on a beautiful day, talk for hours, play with their 3 dogs, and enjoy the mad cooking skills of Audrey and her husband Nick. Audrey is from Maine and Nick is from Serbia, and it’s like a perfect storm of food whenever they’re behind it. Nick tells stories of recipes and dishes he learned from aunts back home. Audrey knows seafood like it’s second nature, a first language for Maine folks.

Now I want to go to Maine. And maybe I want a dog, too.